THOUSANDS of firms need the Government to make a complete break with Brussels to get the full benefits from Brexit, a senior business leader said last night.

A senior business leader said thousands of firms need a complete break from Brussels

Simon Boyd, managing director of construction giant REIDsteel, warned that small and medium-sized businesses will be held back by a so-called "soft" Brexit that keeps many of the existing EU rules and regulations in place.

In a letter to every one of the 650 MPs at Westminster, he said that staying in the EU's single market and customs union would be "very damaging to our business" and would curb "the ability of small and medium-sized firms to grow and develop".

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In a separate article on the Euro-sceptic website Brexit Central, Mr Boyd accused some Remain-supporting politicians of attempting to "water down" Britain's departure from the EU.

If businesses like ours are to invest and grow we need to be able to take back control

Simon Boyd

"We are concerned when we hear our politicians trying to water down what we and 17.4 million people voted for on 23rd June. "It would be a betrayal if those who say that Brexit means Brexit do not deliver our proper exit from the EU," Mr Boyd wrote.

"If businesses like ours are to invest and grow we need to be able to take back control over who makes our laws. "We need to be rid of the interfering power of the European Court of Justice that does as much damage to workers as it does the businesses that support them.

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He also believes the country needs to take power back from the European Court of Justice

"We need to be free to be able to set up our own trade agreements with the rest of the world – including the EU if they value the enormous trade they enjoy with the UK."

He added: "The EU are playing hard ball to frighten us, because they have the most to lose. "We need not make a single concession.

"They have much more to lose than us; they have far more jobs at risk than we do. "A tariff wall would reap us huge returns if we were to continue importing the same amount of goods from the EU.